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2016-08-122016-08-13

Fashion | Tradition & Innovation

*versione italiana sotto*

It’s a big challenge for a fashion stylist to find the perfect equilibrium between tradition and innovation. Here are the best fashion stylists able to look back to the folklore of their countries with an innovative eye: Dolce & Gabbana (Italy), Guo Pei (China) and Manish Arora (India). Each one of them has a distinctive trait based on their strong backgrounds of rich cultural and artistic heritages. Their ability is to use colors, patterns, shapes and materials transforming them into something new and luxury at the same time.

DOLCE & GABBANA (Italy)

The mediterranean universe created by Dolce & Gabbana is unique in the world. After a not-so-easy starting, the Italian duo had a simply genial intuition: get inspiration from Sicilian visual impact. In 1987, the photographer Ferdinando Scianna shot a black&white advertising campaign in Caltagirone (Sicily). The woman, austere yet powerfully sensual, was represented as at the time of the Italian Neorealism. Then, the collection are always changing, with new elements from the past or a renewed color palette, but the leitmotiv of their success is always the visual power of their country.

Here below an extract of their latest collection catch from their website.

郭培 GUO PEI (China)

Guo Pei’s name features among the list of the World’s 100 most influential people in 2016 (TIME). Born in Beijing, Guo Pei started her career in fashion over 20 years ago. But her work as Haut Couturier has a millennial tradition. Her creations are Art, a noble Art colored in gold and enriched with precious material, for a woman who feels like an Empress. Guo Pei creates her own Emperor exaltating femininity in the respect of tradition.

मनीष अरोरा MANISH ARORA (India)

Manish Arora is India’s best know fashion stylist. The result of his eccentric mix between Indian tradition and innovation is an explosion of colors, fantastically hand-made crafts and bizarre -sometimes unwearable – sculptures. I would say ironically baroque instead of kitsch. He raise up Indian fashion to the highest level ever, becoming the first Indian designer showing his collection at the Paris Fashion Week (2007). He is also the first Indian fashion designer riding so many other well-known catwalks and doing so many other things..

Basing his Fall/Winter Collection 2016/2017 on reminiscences from Native Americans, he seems to be confused about his origins as Cristoforo Colombo (Christopher Columbus) was in 1492 when, sure to be watching the Indian coast, he landed in the Americas. Mr. Colombo changed the History following the route to the Far East. I’m sure this is not the case of Manish Arora with his last collection. Anyway, by following the route to the West, Manish Arora changed the course of made-in-India fashion.

Check out the article by Amy Verner (Twitter @amyverner) on Vogue about the latest collection.